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The point of the status page is so you can point to it for your five nines SLA and go "look? we were only down for one hour". As soon as the money relies on the
by Jasper_ 6y ago
The point of the status page is so you can point to it for your five nines SLA and go "look? we were only down for one hour". As soon as the money relies on the metric, the metric will reflect the money.
- mjlawson 6y agoGoodhart's Law[1] in action. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
- zetalemur 6y agoThat's a good one, did not know that. Interesting read.
- post-it 6y agoI've noticed everyone posts links in footnotes, is that just Hacker News etiquette?
- therealdrag0 6y agoYa I think so. Since there isn’t a way to make html links with a short text .
- Jasper_ 6y agoIt's old-school plain-text email etiquette. The original Markdown even used a variant of that syntax for its links definition, known as "reference links". https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link